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Theme
Youth Empowerment
How Palm Island Community Company storytellers name youth empowerment in their own words. Every storyteller below carries the theme; every quote is verbatim and only surfaces from analyses that passed an anti-fabrication grader.
Voices carrying this theme
In their own words
“I work with disengaged kids or kids who not going to school. We create programs with them”
Describing his role in youth services on Palm Island
“They have games, keep 'em active”
Explaining the purpose of sports involvement for community youth
“Usually a letter, a letterhead, and it's like, I elder blah, support this program”
Elder reflecting on superficial engagement from large organisations
“We used to have scouts growing up”
Elder reminiscing about past youth programs that fostered growth and unity
“we celebrate that basis days today with the young generation, young kids that were born with kids and very proud of them”
Opening statement at PICC daycare opening ceremony
“we welcome you on behalf of us and great Palm Island where we stand”
Formal welcome on behalf of Palm Island community
“That's the resilience and the strength and the importance of what we are doing today”
Acknowledging families who traveled from Townsville and distant places to attend the Early Childhood Center opening
“Our children are our future. They are our ancestors of tomorrow”
Central statement at the opening celebration expressing core cultural belief
“It was very hard”
Describing the challenges of living near the dam during floods and storms without a vehicle
“I grew up doing this all my life”
Proudly describing her lifelong engagement with traditional dances that she now teaches to family
“a hopeful narrative about our young people”
Describes the Proud Bwgcolman Youth presentation at SNAICC Conference
“an alternative approach to tackling the complex issues driving the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the youth justice system”
Describes the alternative approach proposed at the conference presentation
Quote selection: every quote shown above is from an analysis that passed an anti-fabrication grader. Analyses with critical issues are not surfaced here.